ALE TALE: Quick Characteristics Brewery: New Belgium Brewing Company Location: Fort Collins, CO Style: Saison ABV: 6.2% IBU: 20 Appearance: Clear pale gold with fizzy, clean white head … [Read more...]
Why differentiate between craft beer and macro beer? It’s all beer, right? Not so. Even if we fantasize about the taste being equal—which is laughable, but I won’t talk about that—there are a myriad of other reasons to reach for craft over macro. The next time you’re at your … [Read more...]
Quick Characteristics Brewery: The Boston Beer Company Location: Boston, MA Style: Specialty ABV: 9.0% IBU: 17 Appearance: Deep blackness and dark tan head Aroma: Heavy & complex with tart, dark-like … [Read more...]
Table of Contents Selecting Your BeerBest-By DatesHow It's PackagedThe Brewer's Footprint Storing Your BeerIs It Stored In Light?Temperature It's Stored InThe Shelf Life of Beer Serving Your BeerDrinking From CansDrinking From GlassIs the Tap Clean?Location You DrinkThe … [Read more...]
History of Weissbier The use of wheat as a fermenting ingredient most likely emerged with the beginnings of agriculture. This puts the possible date of the earliest wheat brewing somewhere around 10,000 years ago. Possibly even further back. We foraged bwild wheat before we started cultivating … [Read more...]
Quick Characteristics Brewery: Alaskan Brewing Co. Location: Juneau, AK Style: Imperial Red Ale ABV: 8.5% IBU: 80 Appearance: Red-shifted amber with fantastic clarity and two-finger mocha-colored foam. … [Read more...]
Quick Characteristics Brewery: Anchor Brewing Company Location: San Francisco, CA Style: American Barley Wine ABV: 8-10% IBU: 39 Appearance: Deep reddish amber with thick foam; Good clarity throughout. … [Read more...]
You’ve probably noticed a changing tide on your local beer shelves. Cans. Lots of them. The recent trend got its start in 2002 when Oskar Blues hand-canned Dale’s Pale Ale. The trend was slow to take off though, chugging along, adding another brewery every now and then, but it’s only really been … [Read more...]
Quick Characteristics Brewery: Lagunitas Brewing Company Location: Petaluma, CA Style: American IPA ABV: 4.65% IBU: 54.20 Appearance: Very pale yellow with soapy, froth-like head Aroma: Heavy hop … [Read more...]
History of Belgian Pale Ales Finding the Belgian pale ale in amongst the forest of other better known Belgian beers is a bit like floundering around in a deep wilderness on a night with very little moon. The categories of Belgian beer lend evidence to just how prolific, experimental, and … [Read more...]
Saison is a beer brewed to be refreshing. The Saison beer style was originally brewed in the cooler months in the southern, French-speaking region of Belgium, known as Wallonia. It was then stored to be served to the farm workers during the warmer months. Historically, the beer was lower in … [Read more...]
Quick Characteristics Brewery: Deschutes Brewery Location: Bend, OR Style: American IPA ABV: 6.5% IBU: 70 Hops: Nugget, Northern Brewer, Chinook, Centennial, Equinox Malts: Pilsner, Pale, Munich, … [Read more...]
